Zappacosta Zappacosta Quotes

#1. As the sociologist Mitchell L. Stevens has put it, "affluent families fashion an entire way of life organized around the production of measurable virtue in children." Measurable, here, means capable of showing up on a college application. We are not teaching to the test; we're living to it.

William Deresiewicz

#2. The ruach blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but cannot tell from where it comes or where it goes. God is He, He is Ruach (Spirit) and Ruach is speaking to our ruach (spirit) revealing great mysteries, knowledge, wisdom, understanding and joy.

Sipporah Joseph

#3. the prince had the stairway smeared with pitch, and when Cinderella tried to run away, her left slipper got stuck

Marissa Meyer

#4. Um ... I guess that's that," said Cerise. "That?" said Maddie. "That is never that. This is that. Or else that is this. And this is definitely not that. So let's go to the dance.

Shannon Hale

#5. If you're not ready to fall, you're not ready to hurdle.

Tonie Campbell

#6. The yoke of my birth

Natasha Trethewey

#7. The way we do one thing is the way we do everything.

Iyanla Vanzant

#8. People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

Geoffrey Rush

#9. I get told a lot that I'm kind of carving my own path. That there are not many actors who are out and are able to play straight and gay, and everyone's OK with it.

Russell Tovey

#10. The challenge is, to live in a house from which meaning has departed, like air leaking from a balloon. A slow leak, yet lethal. And one day, the balloon is flat: it is not a balloon any longer. By

Joyce Carol Oates

#11. We survey lush landscapes with variations not dissimilar to a so-called "imperfect" female body with absolute pleasure
say, an expanse of Irish countryside with grassy rolling hills. But is it really so much uglier when it's made of flesh instead of soil?

Kim Brittingham